Does the price go up after the auction ends? | Members help members

mike.usa · 2026-02-08T18:29:45.580000Z

I just won two items and in both cases the amount to be paid after winning the auction went up because of another (third-party) bid. How is something like this possible?To explain in more detail: both times I placed my last bid 2-3 seconds before the auction ended. After that, as usual, the notification appeared with the green bar saying that I had placed the highest bid, along with the amount to be paid (in my case 6.50 and 17.10). I then went back to "my eBay" and found the prices 9.50 and 20.02 under "Purchases" (mind you, without shipping costs)! In the bid overview I then found bids that were placed 15 and 12 seconds AFTER my bid and thus increased the sale price. By my calculation, that is about 10 seconds after the official end of the auction. How is something like this even possible? I had already been shown the winning price by eBay. How can that be changed afterwards?Has anyone else experienced this? I never have and I've been here since 2002.Does anyone know anything about it?

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